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February 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Going through a computational linguistics program will bring you in touch with Zipf’s Law. Its core claim:
In a corpus, the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank.
Translated into less-wordy terms, it means that some words (events) occur very often and many words only occur a few times, or only once.
Zipf’s Law also [...]

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